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Archive for the 'Middle East' Tag
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Geo-Politics: The New Yorker on war preparations in the USA
The New Yorker in his next issue (July 7 - available online) includes an excellent editorial on the preparations for another war by the Bush administration.
This time its Iraq Iran and based on a Presidential Finding signed by G.W. Bush the congress has already approved 400 Million USD for covert, sabotage and all sorts of other shady activities to “destabilize Iran“…
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Society: Israel’s general strike and the soccer championship
You might have seen in the news that this morning about 400,000 Israeli workers stopped working and started a general strike in the public sector. Within this strike all public service except Post offices, banks, telephones, the health sector and the defense sector are basically closed until further notice (sorry almost forgot, the stock exchange will stay open as well which surprisingly seems to be considered as an essential service in that country - hmmm…). Anyway the strike was launched after thousands of municipal workers have not been paid for months and as one of the results of the strike there will be no public transport including international flights to and from the country. All flights are grounded - no wait - all but one…
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BBC: Pictures of 2006
The BBC has now published its selection from the best pictures of 2006. Our favorite remains the picture (no 3) of a bunch of posh Lebanese driving with their new Mini Convertible through the poor suburbs of Beirut that have been hit by Israeli attacks. This picture tells many stories and…
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What does British Media think about US Middle Eastern politics
While these days its getting more dimmed-down in British media about their own country when it comes to foreign and in particular US politics they still call a spade a spade. So we wanted to point you to one story that seemingly did not get much attention outside of the UK but it includes a [...]
Animated Map: Imperial History of the Middle East
Did you ever wanted to know who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Maps of War has created an Flash animated map that let you flip through 5000 years of history in less then 2 minutes.It shows you how over time empires have come and gone together with their reach. [...]
